Wide-angle, three-component seismic reflection profiling of the crust along the East Coast Gravity High, southern Appalachians, using quarry blasts

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 13933-13945

  Hawman, Robert B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

USA, APPALACHIANS; USA, GEORGIA, CAROLINA TERRANE;

EID: 0030465964     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96jb00792     Document Type: Article

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